Monthly Archives: January 2013

Jan 13

Imagine “Mormon” instead of “Moron” in a newspaper headline and that too in New York Times. A Mitt Romney campaign in last year’s US presidential election went viral because it urged people to stand “with Mitt” for “A Better Amercia.” (instead of AMERICA) An easy typo to make but, almost all typos are easy to make.

Jan 13

A survey by an NGO says that the reading and arithmetic skills of India’s schoolchildren are declining from an already poor level, at a time the government has been claiming an improvement in infrastructure at primary schools.